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- Date: Sun, 6 Sep 1992 14:46:09 -0400
- From: "Timothy L. Nali" <tn0s+@andrew.cmu.edu>
- Subject: Re: man and xman
- In-Reply-To: <1992Sep6.131141.23130@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au>
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- Excerpts from netnews.comp.os.linux: 6-Sep-92 man and xman by Jae
- Won@aurora.cc.monash
- > I have man pages working and xman also working nice. But I found that
- >if unless I have man pages in the man1...man9 directories, xman won't even
- >know it's there. With mcc interim, the man pages are in the cat1...cat9
- >directories so I tried linking things into man directories but then normal
- >man refuses to work...can someone help me set the thing up? Thanks very much
- >in advance.
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- I THINK (strong empahsis on think) I know what's going on. The man
- links have a later date than the cat pages. When man is used, it looks
- in both the man and cat directories. Since the man links have later
- dates than the cat files, man thinks it is reading a newer version of
- that man page and then tries to crank out the corresponding cat page.
- But since the man page is just a link to a cat file, man tries to create
- a cat page from a cat page and dies.
-
- Try doing something to the cat pages so that they have later dates
- than the man links. I don't know if mv will do this; cp should, however.
-
- Hope this helps.
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